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Newsom gets good marks in new poll but faces test with budget crisis

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is California's most popular high-profile politician, but that could be tested by voter concerns over his ability to handle the state's estimated $22.5 billion deficit, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

Los Angeles Times

Yet more rain is expected to hit California in March. But warmer storms could melt snow

LOS ANGELES — Soggy, snow-capped California faces the likelihood of yet another month of wet weather, but what remains uncertain is whether this late winter precipitation will augment weeks of record-setting snowpack, or cause it to vanish should warmer rains arrive.

Los Angeles Times

Rare Snow And Rain In California Set A New Record In Feet Of Snow Where Roads Were Impacted

A significant storm over the last several days created several impacts across California caused some cities to flood & snow.

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Saddleback Church doubles down on support for female pastors

Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, was one of five churches expelled by the Southern Baptist Convention for having women pastors on staff

The Independent UK

California, beleaguered by earlier storms, gets fresh snow

A new storm has dumped fresh snow in the California mountains that are still staggering from earlier blizzards that stranded people and closed roads

The Independent UK

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan returns to 16th parole hearing

Two years ago, a California parole board voted to free Robert F

The Independent UK

Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson follower who helped send him to prison, dies at 73

LOS ANGELES — In 1969, 20-year-old Linda Kasabian came to California to find God. Instead, she found Charles Manson.

Los Angeles Times

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Frontlines of Black mental health crisis

Suicide rates among Black youth have steadily risen — as have rates of anxiety and depression

Salon

LA County moves to require quake retrofits as Turkey-Syria death toll exceeds 50,000

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County took the first step Tuesday toward a mandatory earthquake retrofit order for the types of concrete buildings that collapsed catastrophically in the devastating earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria, causing many of the 50,000 deaths tallied so far.

Los Angeles Times

Meet the MLS ace who ditched West Brom bench for LA Galaxy and California beaches

Jonathan Bond decided to make a change in his career after being number two at West Brom, and was offered the perfect chance to revive his career at Major League Soccer giants Los Angeles Galaxy

Daily Mirror

Biden taps Julie Su, who led California unemployment agency amid wave of fraud, as labor secretary

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Julie Su to be his next labor secretary, setting up the Californian to become the first Asian American he has appointed to run a Cabinet-level department.

Los Angeles Times

It’s bigger than the housing crisis: An influential economist just blamed NIMBYs for American decline, and Elon Musk agrees

Noah Smith calls America “the build-nothing country” and traces America’s “shadow subsidy” all the way back to the 1970s.

Fortune

Heavy snow leaves hundreds of students stranded at science camps in the mountains

Students from the Irvine Unified School District are stuck at Pali Adventure Camp in Running Springs, and at Thousand Pines Camp in Crestline as heavy snowfall rampages California

Daily Mirror

California and the Northeast are hit with major winter storms

Facing a drought, California sees back-to-back snowstorms that have helped build up the Sierra Nevada snowpack. After an uneventful winter in the Northeast, snow is falling from New Jersey to Maine.

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Sports Illustrated

Kings Coach Mike Brown Explains Sacramento’s Surprising Success

If you would have held a poll before the season to gauge which NBA team in California would have two All-Stars and the best record going into the break, a number of responses would have seemed appropriate. The Warriors would have been a natural pick, as they were coming off…

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Ghost town is buried in 7 feet of snow with more to come

An historic California gold-mining town located at an elevation of 8,375 feet is—like most of the Eastern Sierra—blanketed in deep snow.

Fortune

How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people: 'A public health victory'

An infection that's usually easy to treat with common antibiotic eyedrops "has become an infection that can be deadly and has pretty much no treatment except one IV antibiotic,” one expert said.

The Independent UK

How officials cracked case of eyedrops that blinded people

Experts are marveling at how U.S. disease detectives figured out how eyedrops were linked to dozens of infections

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Los Angeles Times

Newsom rescinds California's COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's COVID-19 state of emergency officially ends Tuesday, bringing a symbolic close to one of the most challenging chapters of state history and of Gov. Gavin Newsom's political career.

Los Angeles Times

New poll shows most California voters fear gun violence, but Democrats and Republicans are divided

Following two high-profile mass shootings in California, the majority of voters surveyed in a new statewide poll said they worry that gun violence will affect them or someone close to them.

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VinFast To Start VF 8 US Deliveries On March 1, Halves Lease Rates

Customers who have already paid a refundable deposit on the VF 8 City Edition will benefit from monthly lease rates as low as $274, but only in California.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tech training center to open in Greater Grand Crossing

California’s Bitwise Industries is opening a facility in Chicago to train apprentices after getting $80 million in new funding. It hopes to hire 100 people in a year.

Los Angeles Times

Amid well-drilling and pumping, calls grow for stronger California water regulation

LOS ANGELES — In 2014, California adopted a landmark law aimed at combating excessive groundwater pumping, especially in farming areas of the San Joaquin Valley where many families were seeing their wells sputter and run dry.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Newsom cares more about almond growers than California's salmon fishery

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom bills himself as a protector of wildlife, so you wouldn't think he'd take water from baby salmon and give it to almonds.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: No, California doesn’t have a population crisis

Californians keep hearing that our state has a population problem: Recent statistics from the Department of Finance show that from July 2021 to July 2022, we lost about 211,000 residents. This, on top of a bigger decline between 2020 and 2021, has reinvigorated talk of an exodus as the state’s…

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